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Watson ACT 2602

Watson is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2602. It has 4,287 properties across 73 streets. Explore every street in Watson, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Watson

Watson, ACT 2602, sits in Canberra and neighbours Canberra Central, Downer, Hackett and Majura. Its 73 streets hold 4,287 properties, 2,157 of them houses and 2,130 units.

At the Census Watson had 6,727 residents, a median age of 34 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $2,414 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,067 a month and the median rent $437 a week. Of 2,658 dwellings, 1,539 were separate houses, 784 semi-detached and 327 flats; 601 were owned outright, 1,128 owned with a mortgage and 887 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Watson

  • 6,727Peoplelive in the area
  • 34Median ageyears
  • $2,414Median household incomea week
  • $437Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,539
  • Townhouses and semis784
  • Flats and apartments327

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,067a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 601Owned with a mortgage 1,128Rented 887Other 42

Properties in Watson

Schools in Watson

  • Majura Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

  • Rosary Primary School

    CatholicPrimary

Local agents in Watson

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Agencies that specialise in Watson

Streets in Watson

A

  1. A'Beckett Street131 properties
  2. Ada Evans Street25 properties
  3. Adams Place8 properties
  4. Andrews Street39 properties
  5. Antill Street221 properties
  6. Aspinall Street460 properties

B

  1. Beechworth Street157 properties
  2. Bettie Mcnee Street65 properties
  3. Bicheno Mews20 properties
  4. Blair Place7 properties
  5. Blair Street52 properties
  6. Buninyong Street172 properties
  7. Burnside Street21 properties

C

  1. Carcoar Terrace54 properties
  2. Cooper Place16 properties
  3. Cullen Street39 properties

D

  1. Darley Place8 properties
  2. Dickinson Street52 properties
  3. Dobbie Place12 properties
  4. Dobson Place10 properties
  5. Dobson Street19 properties
  6. Dodds Place13 properties
  7. Dowling Street22 properties

E

  1. Ehrlich Circuit41 properties

F

  1. Federal Highway233 properties
  2. Field Street17 properties
  3. Fleming Street5 properties
  4. Flos Greig Street56 properties
  5. Foster Place8 properties

G

  1. Gwynne Street1 property

H

  1. Hallenstein Lane14 properties
  2. Hanson Place16 properties
  3. Harding Street14 properties
  4. Hearn Street12 properties
  5. Higinbotham Street86 properties
  6. Holroyd Street24 properties
  7. Hood Place14 properties

I

  1. Ian Nicol Street71 properties
  2. Irvine Street174 properties

J

  1. Jordan Place6 properties

K

  1. Kerferd Street33 properties
  2. Kilduff Street33 properties
  3. Knox Street290 properties

L

  1. Lukin Place9 properties

M

  1. Mabel Miller Lane17 properties
  2. Madden Place6 properties
  3. Manning Street36 properties
  4. Mary Kitson Street55 properties
  5. Mccawley Street46 properties
  6. Mcclemans Street9 properties
  7. Molesworth Street56 properties

N

  1. Nanango Way91 properties
  2. Negus Crescent243 properties

P

  1. Peden Place6 properties
  2. Phillip Avenue45 properties
  3. Phillipa Weeks Street18 properties
  4. Phippard Court55 properties
  5. Piddington Street76 properties

R

  1. Roma Mitchell Crescent33 properties
  2. Rooth Place10 properties

S

  1. Shewcroft Street74 properties
  2. Simpson Street48 properties
  3. Stow Place15 properties
  4. Street Place14 properties

T

  1. Tay Street175 properties
  2. Therry Place8 properties

W

  1. Wade Street52 properties
  2. Watson Place22 properties
  3. Whitmore Crescent86 properties
  4. Williams Street58 properties
  5. Willunga Court18 properties
  6. Windeyer Street100 properties
  7. Woolcock Street35 properties

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Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.